Vision Australia’s Easter Egg Hunt is always a cracking success, and those wanting to come along are urged to get in early as tickets went on sale on Tuesday. This will be the 14th Easter Egg Hunt.
The hunt, which is always a sell-out and is part of the Bendigo Easter Festival, draws around 3000 children who take to a wood wool pen in Rosalind Park to search for more than 80,000 chocolate eggs.
Vision Australia’s Bendigo Regional Manager, Simon Barnsley, said the money raised from the hunt feeds back into the Bendigo organisation to support its blind and low vision services.
Late last year Vision Australia moved to new premises in Bridge Street, Bendigo ensuring a high profile and readily accessible service location.
"We provide services for people who are blind or with low vision. Our job is to provide the skills so they can live independently in their community, at school or within their job.”
"We equip people who are blind or have low vision with the skills necessary to do tasks that everyone else does," he said.
Vision Australia Bendigo works with over 800 people who are blind or have low each year so they are able to live independently and confidently.
“This includes support to children through all life stages – from birth, to first steps, to starting school, finding a first after-school job, to reaching adulthood and beyond to realise goals and potential.”
“The Easter egg hunt specifically raises much-needed funds for services for children who are blind or have low vision so they are able to do all the same things as their peers,” he said.
Easter egg hunting is a much-loved Easter tradition and takes place alongside a line-up of live music and dance, giant characters and other roving entertainment as well as the Rotary market at Rosalind Park.
The hunt will take place on Good Friday, March 25.
The sale of tickets this year is now happening in partnership with the Bendigo Visitor Information Centre. For details of the scheduled hunts for each age group and to purchase your tickets, this year visit www.bendigotourism.com from 1 March, call 1800 813 153.